The 'obese medieval monk' : a multidisciplinary study of a sterotype /

The purpose of this study is to explore, through a variety of approaches, the extent to which the stereotype of the ‘obese medieval monk’ is founded in truth. The work aims to determine the ‘antiquity’ of that stereotype, by exploring the image of the monk throughout the medieval period (defined as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patrick, Pip (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2014.
Series:BAR British series ; 590.
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